Somanathan is a professor of economics and program director of the Centre for Research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy, and Environment, Indian Statistical Institute.
We need the scientific and technical capacity that only a securely funded independent Environmental Protection Agency can bring to shrink pollution down to nothing.
Public auctions to sell machines that weed out crop residue at a subsidised rate could help stop stubble burning. It will cost the agriculture ministry a fraction of its annual budget